Section 28 Taking Property to Address "Blight"

• Library: Condemnation Practice 2009

Under article VI, § 21, of the Missouri Constitution, Missouri courts have long recognized that the condemnation of property for the purpose of clearing a blighted, substandard, or unsanitary area serves a public use, even if there is benefit to private interests. Section 353.020(2), RSMo Supp. 2008, defines a blighted area as those portions of a city that “by reason of age...